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OK kids. I would like to pose a question. Does everyone know who Dr. Helen Caldicott is? If you don't you are lucky. She is an anti-nuclear activist that started Physicians for Social Responsibility. She was nominated for a Nobel Piece Prize. She has written many books, and has recently been on a book tour about her new book. I think it is called “If You Love This Planet”. She is a darling of Hollywood, hanging out with Barbara Streisand and Robert Redford all the time. A documentary about her life, “Eight Minutes to Midnight” was nominated for an Academy award.
Her new issue is that the “Cold War is Not Over”. She is working with the Nuclear Policy Research Institute on this issue. She believes that both Russia and the United States nuclear forces are on a hair trigger alert and that we are on the brink of nuclear annihilation. She believe that if a warning comes that Russian missiles are on the way to the United States, Bush would only have three minutes to make a decision, and if such a launch is detected, that our current policy is to respond with overwhelming nuclear attack, just as if we are still in the Cold War. In other words, the world is still on the brink of nuclear annihilation.
Dr. Caldicott and my mother are best friends. I just had dinner with her and my mom and as usual, the good Doctor and me got into a political debate. I told her that the United States and Russia were not on full-scale hair trigger alerts anymore. To show me that I was wrong, she called Robert McNamara on her cell phone, and had me talk to him. Talk about bizarre. I don’t know when these two hooked up but I guess he is now working with her on her project. I confronted McNamara, and McNamara told me that he thought a mistaken US Strike against Russia was unlikely and that our missiles were no longer aimed at Russia. When I got off the phone with him Dr. Caldicott told me that I had intimidated the former Secretary of Defense so he backed down and changed his tune, and that he was lying (can you believe this woman).
She has a big beef with Bill Clinton because she thinks that he did nothing about this situation. He could have changed what she calls the SIOP plan but would not stand up to the Joint Chiefs of Staff (for some reason the Joint Chief’s of Staff are insistent on keeping the whole world on the brink of Nuclear Annihilation). She believes that because Clinton is such a wimp, the US is still on the brink of a nuclear exchange with Russia. I used to be the advisor to the Stanford Republicans when Condi Rice was still at Stanford. We had many events with Condi and in one of them Condi told a student that the US and Russia were no longer poised for a nuclear confrontation. When I told this to “the Doctor” she flipped out. She told me that Condi did not know what is going on. Yes – the current Secretary of State does not know what the US nuclear policy with Russia is.
I asked her to cite me some support of her position, and she showed me some cites from her book, but none of them were primary cites. Her footnotes just cited what other liberals had said. We made a deal. I told her that if she could show me some primary cites (official Pentagon policy positions etc) that the US and Russia were on the brink of nuclear annihilation, I would pass them onto “Condi”. However (now the good part) she told me if I could show her evidence that she was wrong about the current nuclear situation between Russia, and the US she would move back to Australia and forget about politics. She told me that if I could show her that a nuclear exchange with Russia was a remote possibility she would give up politics. She would give up her radio show in Manhattan and move back to her cottage in Brisbane.
Here is chance for the people on this board to do something practical. We can get rid of this woman. Does anyone want to help me find primary cites on what the current nuclear policy with Russia is so I can send this woman back to the land down under
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